Shoe or boot stretcher.



No. 653,778. Patenfed July I7, 1900. F. a. PABST.

SHOE 0B BOOT STBETCHER. (Ap plication filed am. so, 1900.)

(No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRIEDRICH GUSTAV PABST, OF HAMBURG, GERMANY.

SHOE OR BOOT STRETCHER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 653,778, dated July 17, 1900.

Application filed March 30, 1900. Serial No. 10,804. (No model.)

T0 (0% whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRIEDRICH GUSTAV PABST, a subject of the German Emperor, and a resident of Hamburg, in the German Empire, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shoe or Boot Stretchers, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to improvements in shoe or boot stretchers, especially of that class in which a portion of a shoe or boot last is arranged to fill out the toe part of the shoe or boot,while the rear portion, in the form of a lever mechanism, acts against the heel-cap and produces the pressure, and which class of stretchers I have described in the specification of my former United States Patent No. 619,835.

The object of the present improvements is to provide means whereby the shoe or boot stretcher after being placed into the shoe or boot is more readily and properly adjusted to the length of the said shoe or boot. I attain this object by the means illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a sectional side elevation of the improved shoe-stretcher in its working or active position when inserted into a shoe or the like. Fig. 2 is a top view or plan of the said stretcher. Fig. 3 is a sectional side view showing how the stretcher may be folded together when not in use for storing, transport, and the like.

Similarletters refer to similar parts through:

an internally-screw-threaded block or nut f, adapted to travel up and down on the screwspindle g, the nutf being at f pivotally connected to the screw-rod b.

The improved stretcher is used in the following manner: Having first adjusted the screw-rod b to the length of the shoe,the last a is placed into the toe part of such shoe, Fig. 1, and the heel portion 61 is then moved from the dotted position, Fig. 1, into that against the heel-cap. The spindle g by means of its handle g is then rotated, so that the nut f and its link-joint f move down on the inclined spindle, thereby forcing the fore portion a forward and so stretching the top leather or uppers of the shoe to the desired degree in order to give it the appearance of being new, but without widening it.

Having fully described my invention,what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. Alast comprisingafore part or toe-piece, a nut journaled thereto, a screw-rod I) working in said nut, a heel-piece, a screw-rod g mounted to revolve in said heel-piece and a nut on screw-rod g articulated to screw-rod b, for the purpose set forth.

2. A last comprising a shell-like fore part or toe-piece a, a nut mounted to revolve in the rear end of said shell, a screw-rod I) working in said nut, a heel-piece d, the screw-rod g mounted to revolve in said heel-piece, and the nut f on said rod, said nut articulated to the rear end of screw-rod b for the purpose set forth.

FRIEDRICH GUSTAV PABST.

Witnesses:

.MAX LEMOKE,

E. II. L. MUMMENHOFF. 

